Trees

The reverence of great trees – be they oaks, ash, or the witch-ridden elders – is universal and found in all cultures. Equally so in the British Isles. In all animistic traditions, trees are imbued with spirits of various forms and are the focus of rites and moots, as well as the source of a great many medicines.  Their reverence is as much an integral part of our natural cosmos as stones, wells, streams, mountains, etc.

  1. Adam & Eve’s Oak, Brierley – see Adam’s Oak
  2. Adam’s Oak, Brierley, South Yorkshire
  3. Bogle Bush, Collace, Perthshire
  4. Crown Tree, Keillor, Perthshire
  5. Druid’s Holly, Killin, Perthshire
  6. Druid’s Oak, Caton, Lancashire
  7. Fair-Haia, Carlton, North Yorkshire
  8. Fairy Oak, Killin, Perthshire
  9. Fortingall Yew, Glen Lyon, Perthshire
  10. Gospel Oak, Hanborough, Oxfordshire
  11. Hanging Tree, Glen Lochay, Killin, Perthshire
  12. Hanging Tree, Killin, Perthshire
  13. Maiden’s Oak, Baswich, Staffordshire
  14. Maypole Tree, Little Paxton, Huntingdonshire
  15. Port Cross, Port of Menteith, Stirlingshire
  16. Robin Hood’s Oak, Great Horkesley, Essex
  17. Rock Tree, Cromarty, Ross & Cromarty
  18. St. Fillan’s Ash, Killin, Perthshire
  19. Snow’s Oak, Acton Trussel, Staffordshire
  20. Temple Tree, Templeton, Newtyle, Angus
  21. Trysting Tree, Harthill, South Yorkshire
  22. Wallace’s Oak, Larbert, Falkirk, Stirlingshire
  23. Wallace’s Thorn, Dunfermline, Fife
  24. Witch Tree, Aberuthven, Perthshire